The accuracy of commercially produced accelerometer-based activity monitors as a means of estimating average swim bout speed

Biography

Brian Wright is a former NCAA Division III Collegiate swim coach. He’s currently on the faculty at DePauw University and is affiliated with the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming/Indiana University.

Synopsis

A competitive coach’s ability to effectively administer and simultaneously monitor each individual swimmer’s training can be limited during group training. Recent studies have introduced the use of commercial accelerometer-based activity monitors (ABAM) as an additional tool to quantifying competitive swim speed (Wright & Stager, 2013). The purpose of this study was to compare measured swim speed with two estimated swim speeds. Estimated speeds were based on a previously designed sample-based regression (SBR) model and newly implemented individual-based regression (IBR) models that utilised ABAM activity counts (Wright & Stager, 2013).